#academic art

[sardosycserokyric]

Penelope, Charles-François Marchal, c. 1868.

[constanzarte]

The Death of Icarus, by Alexandre Cabanel

[the-evil-clergyman]

Odalisque by Delphin Enjolras (19th Century)

[paintingispoetry]

Vittorio Reggianini, La Soirée, ca. 1880-1938

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Antoine Calbet "Ondines" (French painter, 1860-1944)

[die-rosastrasse]

Hans Zatzka

Austrian, 1859-1945

The Belly Dancer (details)

[srednod]

French School The Death of Orion (Academic Nude) ca. 1770

[lionofchaeronea]

Greek Girls Picking Up Pebbles by the Sea, Frederic Leighton, 1871

[artmagine]

The beautiful academic art of Lawrence Alma-Tadema

[artmialma]

Art of Erdenebulgan.U

Florence Academy of Art

[pen-and-umbra]

The Deluge, Paul Merwart, c. 1900

[galleryofart]

The Slave Market

Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)

Genre: History Painting

Date Created: 1866

Period: Academic Art

Location: Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

A naked woman at center and man at far right are shown in a public courtyard, as prospective slave owners inspect their bodies. Meticulous details like the figures’ clothing, as well as the style of the surrounding architecture, evoke locales such as Egypt and Turkey, where Gérôme spent several months traveling and sketching. Constructed both from imagination and observation, this dehumanizing scene portrays Islamic society as strange, violent, and depraved. Such paintings appealed to France’s assumptions of its own moral superiority as it expanded its colonial empire across North Africa.

[constanzarte]

Gabriel Ferrier, Moonlit Dreams

[the-evil-clergyman]

Nu aux Roses by Delphin Enjolras (Late 19th - Early 20th Century)

[cinematic-phosphenes]

Portrait of a Young Woman | 1869 Pierre Auguste Cot

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Wojciech Gerson "Rest" 1895